How to concatenate unicode strings ???

[Algis Kabaila]

On Wednesday 27 April 2011 02:33:00 Ariel wrote:
> with commands.getoutput(one_comand.encode('utf-8'))  it works
> !!!
> 
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Ariel <isaacrc82 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > And what about if after the string is concat I want it to
> > pass is to the command line to do anything else,  for
> > instance:
> > one_command = cadena.decode('utf-8') +
> > cadena1.decode('utf-8') commands.getoutput(one_comand)
> > 
> > But I receive this error:
> > 
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/commands.py", line 46, in
> >   getoutput
> >   
> >     return getstatusoutput(cmd)[1]
> >   
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/commands.py", line 55, in
> >   getstatusoutput
> >   
> >     pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')
> > 
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
> > u'\xf1' in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)
> > 
> > How could I solve that ???
> > Regards
> > Ariel
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Chris Rebert 
<clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Ariel 
<isaacrc82 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi everybody, how could I concatenate unicode strings
> >> > ??? What I want to do is this:
> >> > 
> >> > unicode('this an example language ') +
> >> > unicode('español')
> >> > 
> >> > but I get an:
> >> > 
> >> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >> >   File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
> >> > 
> >> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3
> >> > in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)
> >> > 
> >> > How could I concatenate unicode strings ???
> >> 
> >> That error is from the 2nd call to unicode(), not from the
> >> concatenation itself. Use proper Unicode string literals:
> >> 
> >> u'this an example language ' + u'español'
> >> 
> >> You'll probably also need to add the appropriate source
> >> file encoding declaration; see
> >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> Chris
> >> --
> >> http://rebertia.com
The following is from Idle3 (IDLE for Python3:

>>> 'this an example language ' + 'español'
'this an example language español'
>>> 

In Python3 all strings are unicode, so your problem just does 
not exist.  Upgrading to Python 3 would eliminate the problem, 
as the above extract demonstrates. 

Perhaps it is time to upgrade to Python 3.2 

In the above when I write Python 3, I mean "Python 3.1 or 
higher".  

With kind regards,

OldAl.

PS: I do not have Spanish on my computer, but I do have at least 
one other languages that uses characters that are outside of 
ascii limit of 128.  
A.
-- 
Algis
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